Spending

How A Cash-Strapped Seattle Mom Got A Full Financial Makeover

The Seattle Times | SUZANNE MONSON | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Single Moms, Debt, Financial Makeover, Household Spending, Single Mothers, Spending, Seattle, Financial Planning, Personal Spending, Personal Finance, Money News

Monthly pedicures? It's a thing of the past. An occasional girls' night out? That's ancient history, too. A video-game system for her 9-ye...

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Ask the Readers: What Do You Wish You'd Learned About Money?

J.D. Roth | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Money, Budget, Spending, Lifestyle, Income, Debt, Career, Financial Responsibility, Financial Lessons, Money News

Wouldn't it be nice if you could go back and give your younger self some words of wisdom? Since time travel doesn't exist, the best thing you can do is try to help other young people.

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Romney Debt Talk Debunked

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: George Bush, Debt, Mitt-Romney-2012, Video, Social Security, Economy, Spending, Great Recession, Mitt Romney, Medicare, Barack Obama 2012, Mitt Romney Debt Inferno, Barack Obama, Ap, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks th...

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How To Save Money In Every Room In Your House

MoneyNing | VINCENT KING | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Household Savings, Household Budgets, Saving, Cable, Home Improvement, Household Spending, Spending, Homeownership, Utilities, Homeowners, Smart Shopping, Money News

You work hard every day, doing everything you can to bring more bacon home, and trim the fat from your spending. But it still isn’t enough. If...

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Is Your Spending Normal?

J.D. Roth | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Spending, Money, Consumer Expenditure Survey, Npr, Consumer Price Index, Earning, Savings, Housing, Money News

Do you like to compare your spending to a broader average? What are your favorite sources for comparing numbers? Do you worry when your spending on, say, housing is far greater than the norm? Or do you just figure different people have different priorities?

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Resist Impulse Shopping

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Money, Shopping, Paco Underhill, Spending, Buying, Impulse Spending, Impulse Spend, Impulse Buy, Impulse Shopping, Impulse Buying, Emotional Intelligence, Impulse Shop, Healthy Living News

So often, we operate on habit and impulse; by recognizing the subtle factors that promote shopping, we can turn that information to our advantage if we're trying to shop wisely.

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How to Solve All Our Budget Fights, Forever

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Grace Slick, Taxes, Guns or Butter, Spending, Budget, Congress, Somebody to Love, Military Spending, Tax Reform, Politics News

Imagine: after filling out your tax form, you then filled in a separate form. Say you paid $5,000 in income taxes last year. You'd then allocate that money as you saw fit, dollar by dollar, among the budget line items you chose.

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A Philosophy of Failure

J.D. Roth | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Money, Spending, Financial Mistakes, Routine, Failure, Money News

Though I've been reading and writing about money for six years now, I still do stupid things sometimes. Last week I made another relatively un-interesting mistake, but one that's educational at the same time.

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In America, A Rising Tide Lifts Only Some Boats

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, Income Gap, U.S. Economy, Poverty, Consumer Debt, Income Inequality, Spending Inequality, Consumer Spending, Wealth Gap, Consumption Inequality, Video, Great Recession, Spending, Inequality, Business News

It doesn't just seem like America is dividing into two nations -- one where luxury spending is going strong, the other where more and more people can'...

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Shopping for the Sake of Shopping

J.D. Roth | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Shopping, Spending, Debt, Money, Impulse Purchase, Credit Cards, Money News

As a younger man, I spent to feel better about myself. I spent to keep up with my friends. I spent to have the things I felt that I deserved. Now good habits are ingrained -- I find it difficult to go shopping, even when I need to.

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Birth Order Survey Yields Big Surprise About Who Is Financially Responsible

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Financial Personality, Birth Order, Video, Middle Born, Saving, Firstborn, Money, Spending, Finances, Science News

By: Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor Published: 04/09/2012 08:01 AM EDT on BusinessNewsDaily While studies have long shown the role th...

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Spending Jump Outpaces Income Growth

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Commerce Report, Consumer Spending 2012, Income Growth, Shopping, Spending, Spending More, Disposable Income, Chamber of Commerce, Consumer Spending, Personal Income, Income Growth 2012, Money News

WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers boosted their spending in February by the most in seven months, raising expectations for stronger growth at the star...

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Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Housing?

J.D. Roth | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Housing Costs, Spending, Emergency Savings, Expenses, Budget, Housing Payment, Business News

Where do you live and how much do you pay on housing? What percentage of your budget does this represent? Does your housing payment cramp other parts of your life? Or have you intentionally kept it low so that you can afford to spend on other things?

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The Power of Financial Planning

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Arts Management, Financial Forecast, Income-Statements, Strategic Plans, Finance, Spending, Arts, Nonprofits, Budgets, Fundraising, Financial Planning, Kennedy Center, Arts News

Organizations that devote time and energy to developing strategic plans must have the courage to imagine truly different futures. And the financial forecasts that should end every plan should reveal one aspect of this new tomorrow.

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Americans Households Still Failing Financial Distress Test

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Cohn | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Household Budgets, Video, Financial Health, Consumer Distress, Saving for Retirement, Spending, Net Worth, Financial Distress, Consumer Spending, Austerity, Business News

Seth was in his 20s on spring break in Florida when he fell into a debt trap. Alongside the cocktails on the beach and wet T-shirt contests were credi...

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An Illusory Holiday Shopping Season: Americans Spent Less In December

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Earnings, U.S. Economy, Video, Holiday Shopping, Economic Indicators, Economy, Spending, Holiday Shopping Season, Holiday Shopping 2011, Consumer Spending, Income, Business News

The boost that the holiday shopping season was supposed to have given the economy proved to be mostly an illusion. Consumer spending actually decli...

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Americans Save Less As Economic Growth Remains Sluggish And Real Wages Fall

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Video, Gdp, u.s. Economic Growth, Spending, Government Spending, U.S. GDP, Gdp Growth, Economic Growth, Consumption, Savings, Consumer Spending, Real Income, Real Wages, Consumer Saving, Business News

At a time that the U.S. economy is struggling to pick up steam, Americans are struggling just to keep up. Over the last three months of last year,...

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The Calculus of Convenience

J.D. Roth | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Spending, Convenience Items, Impulse Purchase, Budget, Business News

For several years now, I've lived in a sort of financial sweet spot. After paying off my debt, I realized that Kris and I had everything we really w...

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States With The Highest And Lowest Credit Card Debt

24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Debt, Spending, Credit Karma, Consumer Goods, Credit Scores, Credit Cards, 24/7 Wall St, Cnnmoney, Income, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: Americans cut down their credit card debt by 11 percent last year, compared to 2010, according to a new report by Credit Karma. 24...

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Ike's Nightmare

Derrick Crowe | Posted 03.18.2012

Fifty-one years ago today, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued his final, prescient warning about the rising power of the military industrial complex. Eisenhower was right to be worried. We're living in his nightmare.

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No More "King-Washing" the Pentagon, Please

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Debt, Deficit, Pentagon, Martin Luther King, Spending, Budget, War, War Costs, Jr., Robert Greenwald, Derrick Crowe, Brave New Foundation, Video, Politics News

Last year at this time, the Pentagon used the words of a friend of the King family to insinuate that, though King's plain words decry all forms of violence and war, today's wars are different and he would "understand" them.

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Why Men Go Broke Spending On Women

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Conspicuous Consumption, Chivalry, Date, Economics, Money, Lamborghini, Expensive Date, Ferrari, Diamonds, Models, Sex Ratio, Valentine's, Spending, Gold Digger, Big Spending, Dinner, Science News

The Ferraris and the diamond necklaces, the gold Rolexes and those lavish date-nights out on the town--wooing a woman can cost a pretty penny. To impr...

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New Survey Shows Consumers Are Possibly Blind To Economic Realities

Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Retail Sales, Holiday Shopping, Consumer Confidence, Unemployment, Shopping, U.S. Retail Sales, Spending, Consumer Credit, Federal Reserve, University of Michigan, Credit Cards, Consumer Spending, Business News

Still riding the holiday shopping high, Americans are feeling more optimistic about the economy than they have in almost a year, according to data rel...

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The Devil Is in the Details of the Pentagon's Plan

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Debt, Deficit, Northrop Grumman, Military, Defense, Pentagon, Lockheed Martin, Panetta, Boeing, Spending, Budget, War Profiteers, Robert Greenwald, Derrick Crowe, Brave New Foundation, Video, Politics News

Will super-rich war-industry CEOs be able to keep bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars? That's the question everyone should be ask...

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A Lesson From Occupy Wall Street

Christopher H. Lee | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Taxes, Infrastructure Bank, Congress, White House, Boehner, Spending, Occupy Wall Street, Obama, American Dream, Politics News

Although OWS is largely a shape-shifting cloud of ideas and frustrations, there is one concrete solution emanating from the tents worth noting: bold, visionary investment in America's infrastructure.

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